Officials Say Confrontation Over Headphones Led To 2 USC Students Getting Shot At Party

September 4, 2011 8:17 PM

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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Officials say that a fight over headphones is what led to two USC students being shot at a party being held near the campus. Stephanie Abrams reports.

Labor day weekend is considered the last opportunity for USC students to party before midterms, but tonight the partying is over and students are on edge after two students were shot.

Police say the shooting happened early this morning at a party in a student-filled off campus apartment complex on the 1200 block of West 37th Street. They say the three suspects in the shootings were not invited guests and were not students. The suspects are still at-large.

Police explained that a student at the party noticed his Dr. Dre headphones were missing. He spotted a suspect with the headphones and confronted him.

Police say when the student’s friends stepped in to help, the suspect pulled out a small caliber handgun shooting both. Police say one bullet hit a female graduate student’s hand and then struck a USC junior in the chest. “The round she took to the finger slowed down the impact of the bullet entering the male victim’s chest and most likely saved his life,” said Captain Melissa Zak.

Both students underwent surgery and are in stable condition at California Hospital.

Police are adding security to the area until they locate the suspects. Officials say they have very good leads and good descriptions on all three. Police are confident they will make arrests in the near future.

Authorities are also advising students hosting parties this Labor Day weekend to be more watchful about their guest lists and to keep the door locked so random people can’t walk in — which is exactly, they say, what happened at the party Saturday night.

Officials Say Confrontation Over Headphones Led To 2 USC Students Getting Shot At Party

Nonya Business

That area is NOT South Central. And, who said the suspects were black?
Shame. Shame. Shame.

Edwin

The USC Trojan Newspaper says the suspect is a black male 18-35. The liberal mainstream media omits this fact and you remain an idiot.
JOSE

who else would try to murder 2 people over a set of headphone???

Kurt

A black thug???

Jacquemeoff

Why would suspect have to be black?? Maybe he was a medical student and stole.Dr. Dre’s headphones because he needed them for a class on heart bypass surgery and couldn’t afford his own? This Dr.Dre must be a great doctor is he like Dr.Phil or Dr.Oz??
HMichaelH

Well, I wonder what race the suspects might be? It might help in the search for and identification of these suspects.
crow

It was a black suspect. According to USC DPS:
Suspect: Described by witnesses as an African American Male, 6′ 3″, 180 lbs., approximately 19-23 years old with protruding front teeth. The suspect was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, no shirt and dark pants. He also is described as having script writing on his chest area, shoulder to shoulder, with a cross and unknown tattoos on both biceps.

FedUp Florida

You can’t rig a ni66er, it’s already rigged.
Hondacop

“Suspect: Described by witnesses as an African American Male, 6′ 3″, 180 lbs., approximately 19-23 years old with protruding front teeth”

Lock up your daughters!! Stymies’ grandson is on the loose!!

John Chris

“HEAD” phone not “haid”, no wonder the Chicoms are smarter than us.
steelers01

You can always tell when the liberal media doen’t name a race that they were black, Hispanic, or arab. It’s what is now expected of them and is no longer a surprise.
Bruce Brinkmann

Right! If the shooting had been done by whites the article would have said so. Since there was no mention of the race then…….HMMMMM…..Let me guess
Jakob Agaetis

You mean the Dr. Dre headphones sold in ever Apple store in the world? I didn’t know Apple had a sign out front of each store saying “Blacks Only”.

You’d think this website was ran by the KKK. Racists

jnsesq

Yeah, dat who it be “ran” by.

Hollywood HIck

I think the shame is on you for being such a politically correct moron.
Beto

Well guys. I am black. Please understand there is a difference between regular blacks and conservative blacks. This shooter must have been an Obama supporter hence a liberal. Do not paint all of us with the same brush….

Disgusted

You sound like a complete idiot. Technically, if you are black I would beg to differ that you are regular. Just like any person of any other race. You can’t pit regular against conservative. That makes no sense. If you said liberal vs. conservative than that would make sense. The shooter may have not had any political affiliation whatsoever. But, it is funny how people like to give associations based on race especially when they feel they have a point to prove or need to seperate themselves.

George Buckner

Beto. sorry for posters painting with a broad stroke. But, you have to admit, being a black conservative is certainly a minority. With that being said, welcome to reality.

Disgusted

Beng conservative DOES NOT equate to having a better perspective on reality.

NOAMSAYN?

This is actually a reply to BETO (Sep 5 @ 9:06 pm).

Hey Beto, the difference between regular blacks and conservative blacks is that the USA has MILLIONS of regular blacks and only about 58 conservative blacks.

Disgusted

So we are now creating divisions within race? So, there are regular whites and conservative whites? Regular hispanics and conservative hispanics, etc.? WOW!!!!!!!!

Al Schork

Specifically DR DRE headphones !!!
Beatdude

IF they were black, they would have said so or had a picture! Don’t you know that by now? Obviously not black. Get a grip!
jabusse

spare me. USC stands for University in South Central. 99% of crime in the area is committed by blacks. The reason the article left it out was (1) bigots at CBS don’t want to offend and (2) why report the obvious.
Lee

If you don’t know the highly probably race of the suspects then you are a blind fool. Sure anything is possible, but these suspects race is highly predictable. Politically correct people are blind and ignorant of the world around them. Ask a PC person a simple question like who committed this crime, and he will be clueless. While everyone else easily sees the obvious answer, the PC person ignores the correct answer and says “I don’t know who could have done it, absolutely no idea.” You failed the real world common sense test PC liberals. You don’t know anything because you are blinded by your theoretical ideals. What’s the color of grass? Whats the color of the sky? I wouldn’t be surprised if a PC person says “Duh, I don’t know. It might be this or it might be that, I just don’t know” How do we fix the economy? “Duh, I don’t know. Maybe we’ll try this idea I read in a book and maybe we’ll try that idea I heard in class.” But PC liberals do not really know anything about the real world that is right in front of their ignorant faces, like enacting economic policies that have been proven to work outside a liberal-biased college classroom. They don’t know what race committed the crime in this story and they don’t know how to fix the economy, because they are idealogically blind fools. That’s just pure stupid. Wake up people. Look at the world around you. A non PC conservative-minded person is not so blind and ignorant. A non PC person can give you answers about the world around you, while the PC person can only wallow in dumb ignorance and say I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. Thank God there are not more PC liberals or nothing would get done, and this country would really be ruined. If you want to fix this country, vote out the PC liberals who can’t see or choose to ignore the obvious answers to be found by looking at the world around them.

SOB1313

Couldn’t a said it better myself…

jamal

how much do you want to bet?
Phil

SUSPECT DESCRIPTION (provided by complainant):
Suspect: Described by witnesses as an African American Male, 6′ 3″, 180 lbs., approximately 19-23 years old with protruding front teeth. The suspect was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, no shirt and dark pants. He also is described as having script writing on his chest area, shoulder to shoulder, with a cross and unknown tattoos on both biceps.
Phil SC

The complainant said he was black…
SUSPECT DESCRIPTION (provided by complainant):
Suspect: Described by witnesses as an African American Male, 6′ 3″, 180 lbs., approximately 19-23 years old with protruding front teeth. The suspect was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap, no shirt and dark pants. He also is described as having script writing on his chest area, shoulder to shoulder, with a cross and unknown tattoos on both biceps.
VANESSA

WHITE PEOPLE ARE 2 BUSY DOING COLUMBINES, ABDUCTING WHITE WOMEN EVERY DAY (NANCY GRACE SHOW) MOLESTING AND ABDUCTING CHILDREN, MURDERING THEIR PARENTS, DECAPITATING BODIES AFTER THEY HAVE MURDERED SOMEONE, GOING OVER TO ARUBA ABDUCTING WOMEN AND KILLING THEM, BLOWING UP THEIR HOMES FROM HAVING METH LABS IN THEM WHILE CHILDREN ARE AROUND, PRETENDING THAT THERE IS NO RACISM IN AMERIKKKA, THEN TURN AROUND AND CALL PEOPLE THE “N” WORD AND PAINT A BROAD BRUSH ON A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO THEY DO NOT KNOW, ONLY TO KNOW WHAT IS TOLD ON THE TV NEWS, RADIO, OR NEWSPAPER. ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS AREN’T LIKE EVERY NEWS PICTURE U SEE. IT IS AMAZING WHEN WHITES COMMIT CRIMES, IT IS BUSINESS AS USUAL BECAUSE I GUESS THEY DON’T SEE IT AS RACE, BUT WHEN WE COMMIT CRIMES WE HAVE THIS TYPE OF FORUM. WE COULD GO BACK IN HISTORY WHEN WHITES KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, RAPED WOMEN AND MEN WHO WERE ENSLAVED, TO INNOCENT CHILDREN, AND STOLE A COUNTRY FROM IT’S ORIGINAL OWNERS THE NATIVE INDIANS, INFECTED THEM WITH DISEASES AND MURDERED THEM AS WELL. INCLUDING THEIR OWN, WHITES HAVE A KILLING HISTORY THAT GOES WAYYYYYYYYYY BACK AND THEY ARE STILL KILLING, SERIAL KILLING, UNIVERSITY KILLINGS, WHITES COMMIT MORE CRIMES BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE OF THEM, YET THEY AREN’T AS POLARIZED AS WE ARE. THEY ARE STILL TRYING TO MAKE THE BLACK MAN OUT TO BE THE BOOGIE MAN, SO LET’S NOT GO THERE, WHITE PEOPLE ARE NOT INNOCENT ANGELS BY ANY MEANS.
Disgusted

Really????? Funny, I am white and live in a big city and know plenty of other non-black people that live in big cities. Get your facts straight.

Marco

Did anyone call Dr. Dre to let him know?

gary

when the media, won’t release the color of suspects in a murder,
that’s code: for 2 black males.
if it were white or Asian suspects, they would just say so

anon anon

Trojan Jennifer is right…….. never drive past the LA Coliseum unless you need to go to the airport , oh the airport is in Inglewood …………………

Ofailure

The airport is NOT in Inglewatts, dummy. No excuse for your ignorance.

Izel

Just to be fair, being middle class, educated or with a usc degree does exempt anyone of personal flaws or commiting criminal activities. Has anyone heard of white collar crimes? Thank you!

anon anon

white collar crimes include “higher education crimes” such as Insider trading, illegal hedge funding, ponzi schemes
smdh

Izel, just to be fair, do not exempt them from crime…don’t you pay attention to the news, they have those parties, get drunk, date rape their students, the girls get pregnant and toss their babies out into dumpsters, don’t you listen to the news…smh Then those students get a job an that is when the white collared crimes are consider “low priority” thanks Tom for that part!!!! As for all the other mumbo jumbo uncle Tom is talking about that is just his opinion so don’t feel to sorry for him! Speaking from someone that has lived in a mile radius of USC all her life 34yrs!!
Forgery is a FELONY!
me

“White collar crimes” Oh you mean “Crimes that sort of takes brains” rather than shooting someone over a set of Dr. Dre headphones, over being “dissed”, or for wearing the wrong color doo rag?

JOSE

dat wha im talkin bout willis

HMichaelH

If you “…dont want nobody to have guns.,” does that mean you want everyone to have guns? (Look up the grammatical explanation for double negatives, you moron!)
White Cracker

Why does it have to be a “White Collar” Racist!!!
RA0725

White Collar Crime would be like:

Giving huge amounts of taxpayer funds and userping federal bankruptcy laws and the rights of investors to give a union controlling interest in a major corporation in return for large donations to a political fund. Right?
montavious

Yes I agree, and if you need proof just Google “Walter Williams” articles for some eye-opening statistics. The numbers will blow you away.

Our Brightest

Ahhh… the future elite of our country…

Looks like that THUG criminal culture POSTER they have of that hooded gang-like-member POINTING a GUN at you, in their dorm room there… CAME TO LIFE.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for anyone who supports, loves, glorifies criminality, thuggerism and then cries about when it rears it ugly head.

Luckily no one was killed but if you live by the sword…

Even if you use gang-associated products like Dr. Dre’s Beats overpriced junk (yes, amazing that today, gang bangers have million dollar making products), its bound to attract just that sort of violence, that culture. It’s tied to that regardless of what you think, its by association.

And whats up with that USC Security/Police… I mean they are EVERYWHERE around USC and they weren’t around on this one? I really thought they had their stuff together. Very odd.

Tiffany

No @smdh, actually it is you that is very odd. You and your kind a a freak show to most Amerians and you ghetto language really shows who you are.
Our Brightest

I love it when they defend the wrong!

Using spelling like “azz” and getting all thug on me…

Your kind proves me right everytime. EVERY… TIME.

I must of hit a what I call a ‘truth-nerve’.

Continue on your path.
White Cracker

She, he, or it? SMDH, Shut up! Our Brightest I will vote for you! I hope your in the Tea Party like me!

Our Brightest

Funny! No White Cracker! I’m not in the Tea Party but have lived amongst this krapp for way to long to know them like the back of my hand.

They always deflect responsibility, love to live the life but when it the grimster comes a knocking, they’re all like “waaaaahhh mamaaa! get me out of here!”

Such is thug-life.

George Buckner

smdh : You might have more credibility if you could spell. The correct usage is
you’re and don’t say it was a typo. Silly me, it’s not YOUR grammar, it’s YOUR thought process.

Mexilangeles Resident

Yet they hang gangsta rap posters with violent imagery in their dorm rooms and listen to hardcore thug hip hop… they bam… and they run crying back to mommy and daddee.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH!

Welcome to our http://www.NewNation.org

It’s for the children.

Ben

GoVnn.com

SokNoo Ramos

Unreal. Wat a bunch of animals.
http://www.privacy-online.it.tc
“REPUBLICAN EMPIRE FALLS”

if you listen to rap/hip-hop music, your inviting the boogeyman whether you like it or not!!

JOSE

dont insult music by calling rap music plz

White Cracker

Hahaha! Word up! Music and rap in the same sentence? Not!

xxx

The real blissful ignorance comes from idiots like yourself who go through life with their heads in the sand.

JOSE

LOL YOU HIT IT ON THE HEAD

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t829557/#post9543384 Students Shot In Confrontation Over Stolen ‘Dr. Dre’ Headphones – Stormfront

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moose lyme

get over it whitey,and just apply for your minority benefits. and it was dumb whitey who voted for this trash from mayor to pres

White Cracker

Huh? Did you say something? Dude I hope you dont represent USC?

George Buckner

probably an honor student

SmarterBecauseIStayedInSchool

Was that even English?!

Dumb ghetto trash didn’t even finish middle school, I’ll bet.

Dominic Carabello

Sorry GENIUS…it wasnt a ghetto back when USC was founded!! Packing up & moving a huge university is NOT an option & police usually do a great job at keeping the area relatively safe. The stupidity comes in students not using CAUTION…

White Cracker

Yea, leaving those black and latino’s of the invite list!
greybeard3

Actually, USC could have VERY easily moved to a safer location. Pepperdine University used to be located in the Vermont Knolls section of South Central LA, but chose to move to Malibu in the 1960′s specifically because of crime and urban decay.

Ryan Mouk

Let me guess. The shooters were ghetto fabulous, or at least thought they were, and they were “disrespected” by those kids which made them “represent” with guns because they were to cowardly to use their mouth or fists. Cowardly gang-banging maggots.
Zipperhead

Well as long as there was a good reason, I guess it’s alright.
SdM

Ignorance and apathy are symptoms of the decline and fall of a once great nation. Its over. Education is a joke.
Ken

Ah, good old minorities. I don’t take my kids to the zoo, but sometimes when I’m alone, I like to drive by all the brown animals to watch them kill each other.

Micheal

OMG really dude, see it is people like you that god spoke of in the bible, burn in hell.
White Cracker

Ken
I hope I dont burn w/you! Damn, that was funny!
HansJurgen

I’m sure Charles Darwin is smiling in his grave as the Darwin’s Theory is once again proven that some of us just haven’t evolved much past apes.
“ghost buster” lol

your just a: “cheesy white maggot, shlt-bag ghost”!!!!

David

My God, it’s 2011 — haven’t we all figured out by now that race and culture have absolutely NOTHING to do with these sorts of incidents? For all we know the perpetrators could easily be Jewish guys from Westwood or Vietnamese girls from Santa Ana. Who knows, maybe it was three Amish kids from Iowa who just happened to show up at the party and wanted to cause trouble. But there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to think that the three bad guys here were black or hispanic thugs. Right?

Iowa_Amish

Yes, it very well could be Amish kids from Iowa. In fact, that’s the most likely explaination. Go with that.

White Cracker

If it would be Amish, wouldnt they have homemade wooden guns? Dont they make there own tools to kill with! (wooden guns and wooden bullets?)
Jacquemeoff

Another case solved! I bet it was Rumspringa!!!
Scott Martin

Amish anarchists riling against technology – I go bezerk when I see headphones, but Dr. Dre’s is like a liberal seeing Glen Beck at an event in a NYC park. DOWN with electricity!!!
chas

Amish guns have an orange triangle on them.

steelers01

Sorry sport but since it IS 2011, we know better. We have watched the animals far too long to not recognize their antics. Race and culture have EVERYTHING to do with and sadly, that will never change. It may be time to put the rabid dogs down!

ol’ cracker

Wholly correct steeler01.Separation from this vile ” gibbs me dat ” parasitical race is the only answer.
Disgusted

Let’s start with you first.

Bulls Balls

What world do you live in, talk about ignorant.

Scott Martin

Think that was sarcasm dude…here – (sarc) – does that help?

Kurt

You’re an idiot. Race has EVERYTHING to do with this type of crime because blacks are the ones who will willingly murder someone for something as insignificant as a pair of headphones.

Disgusted

Correction Kurt. Only stupid people commit these types of crimes over something insignificant. Black and white. I’ve heard of blacks doing it for material things (this and other incidents) and whites doing it for nothing at all (Jared Laughner, Casey Anthony) and vice versa. These people don’t represent the whole race they are all individuals.

Edwin

The USC Trojan Newspaper says the suspect is a black male 18-35. The liberal mainstream media omits this fact. Just thought you would like to know.

JOSE

EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW WHEN THE AMERICA HATING COMMUNIST MEDIA OMIT RACE ITS ALWAYS BLACKS ALWAYS 100% OF THE TIME SO REALLY BY DOING THAT THEY ARE DOING BLACKS A DISSERVICE BECAUSE THEY ARE BASICALLY SAYING THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED BY BLACK CRIMINALS….BLACKS SHOULD SUE THE MEDIA WHO LEAVES OUT RACE BECAUSE IT IS DESCRIMINATORY
joeshmoe

I’m not stirring the pot but I am a police officer and I personally have given local news agencies descriptions of suspects including race/skin color. One guy was dark with dreadlocks!!. I get home watch the local news or read the paper the next day and I see ” The suspect is described as a male 5’10″ 200 lb blue jeans red shirt” They purposely leave out race color or anything that would make you think he was black. If it’s a white suspect the say white male with buzz cut. So yes this is fact!

White Cracker

I live in Louisiana and the local paper does the same thing… Why even print such stupity? It is a disservice to the public not letting us know the RACE of the individual!!!!

smashicus

Thanks for adding to the entertainment.
stevefraser

iI prefer Sennheisers.

PHD

Indeed… Only a stupid black would kill somebody over such horrible sounding headphones as Dr Dre’s.

tom in toronto

The cops shouldn’t have a problem tracking down the shooter and friends. I mean how far could three Amish guys get in a horse and buggy?

George Buckner

now that was funny

slob

they aree always black wake up!! you bleeding heart fool!!!!!!!!
snicker

Being black is beautiful???????????? I would be ashamed of being black or hispanic, oh but they blame whitey ha ha, lets face the facts affirmative action hasn’t got um out of the hole they have been in? Poor black/hispanic people… lets call it like it is their trash!!!!!!! stop the political correct BS.

White Cracker

Now you did it! LA is now going to have a RIOT because of you! Meany!

Morey Ladini

Please, will some more liberals here post how there is no apparent difference in people’s minds between VIOLENT STREET CRIME vs. FINANCIAL WHITE COLOR CRIME?
Jacquemeoff

You never hear of people getting shot in Wyoming over a pair of Brad Paisley headphones!!!

White Cracker

OHHHHHHH no u di-nt!
George Buckner

In fact, you don’t hear of many people being shot in Wyoming over anything. Wonder why? hmmmmm. Something to ponder.